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"You weren’t made for this life" Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

You weren’t made for this life: Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata Translated by Teresa Lavender-Fagan @seagullbooks

It begins as it ends. With a beam, a rope, a chair and a window looking out on a hill, a cypress tree and a potato field. With a heart turned to stone through so many trials. In her stark, poetic elegy The Last Days of Mandelstam, Lebanese-French poet and writer, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, aimed to bear witness to the final days and hours of Osip Mandelstam’s life that had passed unrecorded in a transit…

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We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world’s wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world’s wealth hidden in tax havens—in countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands—this wealth cannot be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world’s assets are currently hidden—until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world’s money held in tax havens. And it’s staggering. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. His research reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax havens has increased over 25%—there has never been as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth accounts for at least $7.6 trillion, equivalent to 8% of the global financial assets of households. Fighting the notion that any attempts to vanquish tax havens are futile, since some countries will always offer more advantageous tax rates than others, as well the counter-argument that since the financial crisis tax havens have disappeared, Zucman shows how both sides are actually very wrong. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations he offers an ambitious agenda for reform, focused on ways in which countries can change the incentives of tax havens. Only by first understanding the enormity of the secret wealth can we begin to estimate the kind of actions that would force tax havens to give up their practices. Zucman’s work has quickly become the gold standard for quantifying the amount of the world’s assets held in havens. In this concise book, he lays out in approachable language how the international banking system works and the dangerous extent to which the large-scale evasion of taxes is undermining the global market as a whole. If we are to find a way to solve the problem of increasing inequality, The Hidden Wealth of Nations is essential reading...    

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Hi, could you share some books or resources about Marina Tsvetaeva's poetry? I am writing a paper on her! Thank you :)

hello! what I've read about her and her writings were mainly written in Russian. these are the ones i could find in English:

Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan)

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell by Lily Feiler

and some of her poetry

My Poems: Selected Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva: Seventy-five Selected Poems

Selected Poems: Marina Tsvetaeva

many of her poems can also be found here

good luck with your paper!

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In the train, sitting around me, there are: (1) a woman traveling alone, with a German accent (Alsatian? Swiss?), has a pony tail with a scarf tied around it; she tries to catch my eye, orders a meal tray when I do, doesn’t order anything to drink, then asks for carbonated water, ice, etc.; she is reading Rif, terre de légendes (2) w black Moroccan woman with pimples; she’s wearing a burgundy caftan, buckled shoes; she’s holding a curly-haired baby in her arms (3) a modestly dressed pied-noir woman working on a complicated crochet project (4) two dykes playing cards (5) a barefooted Moroccan boy.

Barthes, “Incidents” trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan

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Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure

Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure

Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure Paul Veyne, Teresa Lavender Fagan Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan stop for those crossing the Syrian…

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Earliest surviving recipes written in Akkadian, 1750 BC. This cuneiform tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 are meat stews and 4 are vegetable stews.

Tablets were translated by Jean Bottéro and Teresa Lavender Fagan.

Yale university, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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"...the light is liquid, radiant, heartbreaking..." #rolandbarthes #incidents

“…the light is liquid, radiant, heartbreaking…” #rolandbarthes #incidents

It won’t have escaped the notice of the most casual of visitors to the Ramblings that I’ve written quite a lot about Roland Barthes over the last few years…! I’ve read several of his major works, but I’m often attracted to more marginal writings; so when I stumbled across mention of today’s book I couldn’t resist. “Incidents”, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan and published by Seagull books,…

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B: Michaelmas Term

The B-course for the MSt in World Literature strand introduces students to the methodologies and theories of bibliography, manuscript studies, textual scholarship, and book history. These are framed specifically within the broad concerns and methodologies of world book history and the emergence and institutionalisation of the categories of world and postcolonial literature within global and local literary spaces and the publishing industry.

The course has two different components:

(i) Material Texts (Michaelmas and Hilary Term) 

(ii) Primary Source Research Skills (Michaelmas Term)

Material Texts will be taught in weekly two-hour seminars taught over ten weeks in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms introducing a range of debates and methods in material approaches to literary culture relevant to world book history. Primary Source Research Skills will be taught over six weeks in Michaelmas Term and will focus specifically on working with literary archives, modern literary manuscripts, digital archival materials and institutional archives. Please note in the schedule below that seminars do not take place each week for both courses in Michaelmas Term; the seminars in each course have been coordinated to speak to one another and there is a rationale for the order of the seminars.

 The course assumes no prior knowledge of material approaches to literary culture. The seminars will introduce a range of theories and debates in the field. We will circulate a detailed bibliography at the start of Michaelmas Term to guide your reading as you engage with the topics of the seminars. You may be asked to prepare particular tasks for seminars, but there will not normally be a list of required reading. Instead you are encouraged to read further in line with your developing research projects, which should draw on the skills and methods that the course introduces. There will be opportunities to discuss your project in one to one consultations in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, and the course will culminate with presentations and feedback on your essay projects in Hilary Term. For now, we ask that you read as widely as possible in the suggested Introductory Reading below, which has been selected to offer you a taste of the different critical approaches possible within the B Course.

Michaelmas Term

(i) Material Texts 

Week 1 Instituting World Literature I 

Week 2 Introduction to Bibliography 

Week 3 Introduction to Book History 

Week 4 The Industry of World/Postcolonial Literature 

Week 5 Orality and Literacy 

Week 6 Cross-strand Material Texts Over Time 

Week 7 No class this week 

Week 8 Initial essay consultations (one to one)

(ii) Primary Source Research Skills

Week 1 Reading Modern Literary Manuscripts 

Week 2 The Writer’s Archive 

Week 3 Making Meaning in the Archive 

Week 4 No class this week 

Week 5 Working with Digital Archives 

Week 6 No class this week 

Week 7 Institutional Archives I: Publishers OUP 

Week 8 Institutional Archives II: Prizes Booker Prize Archive

Hilary Term

Material Texts

Week 1 Instituting World Literature II 

Week 2 Student presentations 

Week 3 Student presentations 

Week 4 Student presentations 

Week 6/7 Final essay consultations (one to one)

Introductory Reading

Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Edited by Randal Johnson. Cambridge: Polity, 1993. 

• Casanova, Pascale. The World Republic of Letters. Trans. M.B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, 2007. Trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan. 

• Chartier, Roger. “Language, Books, and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text,” Critical Inquiry 31.1 (Autumn 2004): 133-152.

 • Darnton, Robert. ‘What Is the History of Books?’ Daedalus 111 (1982): 65-83. • Eggert, Paul. ‘Brought to Book: Bibliography, Book History and the Study of Literature’. The Library 13.1 (2012): 3-32. 

• Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Book History Reader. London: Routledge, 2002. 

• McDonald, Peter D. “Ideas of the Book and Histories of Literature: after Theory?” PMLA 121.1 (2006): 214-228. 

• McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 

• Murray, Simone. Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021. 

• Price, Leah. What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading. New York: Basic Books, 2019. 

• Steedman, Carolyn. Dust. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. 

• Willis, Ika. Reception. Abingdon: Oxon.: Routledge, 2018

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A Cage In Search of A Bird

A Cage In Search of A Bird by Florence Noiville is An Incisive Portrayal of the Devastating Consequences of Erotomania

A Cage In Search of A Bird by Florence Noiville is An Incisive Portrayal of the Devastating Consequences of Erotomania A Cage In Search of A Bird by Florence Noiville, translated from French by Teresa Lavender Fagan, is a story of delusional love and obsession that wrecks the lives of two friends and eventually leads to disastrous consequences. Based on the psychological disorder erotomania,…

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[Free eBook] Vegetables: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano [Award-Winning Culinary Botanical History with Recipes]

Vegetables: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, a francophone author and journalist, is her culinary botanical and cultural history cum recipes, free for a limited time courtesy of the University of Chicago Press.

This is their featured Free Book of the Month selection for October and was a recipient of the Prix Brazier de l’essai gourmand in its original form as La Fabuleuse histoire des légumes, which was published in 2008 by Grasset, now translated from French by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

This book explores the scientific, cultural, and culinary histories via mini-biographies of 11 selected vegetables and their origins and uses in various countries throughout the world from the past to the present day, including a brief selection of illustrative vintage recipes showing several ways in which some have been cooked and served over the centuries.

Offered worldwide through October, available directly via the university's website.

Currently free through October directly @ the university's dedicated promo page (ADE-DRM ePub available worldwide, approx 2.7 mb) and you can also read more about the book on its [URL=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo8607658.html]regular catalogue page[/URL].

Description From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens—and especially to vegetables. Whether it’s an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash, from a farmers' market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutrition—it also represents a link with long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding.

In this charming new book, those veggies finally get their due. In capsule biographies of eleven different vegetables—artichokes, beans, chard, cabbage, cardoons, carrots, chili peppers, Jerusalem artichokes, peas, pumpkins, and tomatoes—Evelyne Bloch-Dano explores the world of vegetables in all its facets, from science and agriculture to history, culture, and, of course, cooking. From the importance of peppers in early international trade to the most recent findings in genetics, from the cultural cachet of cabbage to Proust’s devotion to beef-and-carrot stew, to the surprising array of vegetables that preceded the pumpkin as the avatar of All Hallow’s Eve, Bloch-Dano takes readers on a dazzling tour of the fascinating stories behind our daily repasts.

Spicing her cornucopia with an eye for anecdote and a ready wit, Bloch-Dano has created a feast that’s sure to satisfy gardeners, chefs, and eaters alike.

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Vénus Khoury-Ghata: 'The Woman Who Wasn’t in the Photo'

Vénus Khoury-Ghata: ‘The Woman Who Wasn’t in the Photo’

We close Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) with a poem by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, born in Lebanon in 1937:

A translation of Khoury-Ghata’s The Last Days of Mandelstam (Englished by Teresa Lavender Fagan) is forthcoming from Seagull Books in October 2020. In it is Khoury-Ghata’s portrait of Mandelstam in his final days, when Khoury-Ghata was herself one year old and thousands of miles away.

Khou…

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A wanderer between two worlds: The Postman of Abruzzo by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

A wanderer between two worlds: The Postman of Abruzzo by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, tranlated by Teresa Lavender Fagan #WITMonth

“Rifling through the papers of a dead man isn’t enough to bring him back to life.” Ten years after her geneticist husband died following his return from a village in a mountainous part of southern Italy, Laure leaves her home in Paris in search of something—she’s not sure exactly what—that will help her understand why he kept returning to this isolated community of displaced Albanians again and…

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Book Review: A powerful fictional take on Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’

Author:  Manal Shakir Sat, 2017-11-25 14:52 ID:  1511600207572468200 The English-language translation of “The Influence Peddlers” by poet and novelist Hédi Kaddour has been eagerly anticipated since 2015 when he first published the book in French under the title “Les Prépondérants.” Translated into English by Teresa Lavender Fagan, Kaddour’s book received multiple awards for its clever plot that…

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Attachment

Attachment by Florence Noiville is An Exploration of the Complex Probable Underlying Reasons of Inexplicable Attraction in Exception to Social Norms

Attachment by Florence Noiville is An Exploration of the Complex Probable Underlying Reasons of Inexplicable Attraction in Exception to Social Norms Attachment by Florence Noiville, translated from French by Teresa Lavender Fagan, deals with the very complex question of love and its obsession. The complex nature of the subject ends up throwing up more questions than answers. But Florence…

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“I’m afraid of myself.” Down with the Poor! By Shumona Sinha

“I’m afraid of myself.” Down with the Poor! By Shumona Sinha, translated by Teresa Lavendar Fagan #WITMonth

In my half-sleep I saw faces and bodies emerge out of the floor tiles. Blissful, intrigued, tormented people. They appeared when I blinked my eyes. Disappeared when I blinked my eyes. Like this night, in this police cell. To tell the truth, I am still not rid of that shouting and whispering. Opening with an epilogue from Pascal Quignard about the implication inherent in ancient Greek notions of…

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The living dead man: The Last Days of Mandelstam by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

The living dead man: The Last Days of Mandelstam by Vénus Khoury-Ghata @seagullbooks

The premise is very simple. It is December 1938. As the year draws to a close, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam lies on the very edge of death in a transit camp near Vladivostok. There he will die, far from his beloved Moscow, away from the friends who have either abandoned him or confronted their own tragic circumstances, and separated from his devoted wife Nadezhda. His body will be tossed into a…